“The Dixville Volunteers”
originally appeared in Backdraft (Cleis Books).

“A Place to Skate” originally
appeared in Skater Boys (Cleis Books).

“From the Bedroom to the Darkroom”
first appeared at Gaylinkcontent.com.

“The Turn-On Train” appeared in
Mandate magazine, and in somewhat different form in Gallery magazine.

“The Beach at Nice” originally
appeared in Tales of Travelrotica for Gay Men (Alyson Books).

Smashwords
Edition

At School

I used to work on a construction
site with guy who had a favorite rhyme. It went “Roses are red, and
ready for plucking. College girls are cute, and ready for …” He’d
always let you fill in the blank. I could do that, but I’d always
substitute guys
for girls.

There’s just something about a
college guy, isn’t there? Sometimes a twink but sometimes not. Old
enough to be legal but not always old enough to know better. The
stories in this section are all set at schools, where guys can be
free to get up to some mischief.